West Virginia
DataCentersExposed tracks 3 AI data centers in West Virginia — 1 operating and 1 in the pipeline — across 3 counties, drawing 5 MW of reported power demand from 0 tracked corporate operators.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
DataCentersExposed tracks 3 data centers in West Virginia — 1 operating and 1 under construction. The 1 West Virginia facilities with disclosed electrical capacity account for 5 MW of demand on the grid — power that competes with homes and businesses for the same generation and transmission.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
West Virginia at a glance
Geographically, the buildout clusters: Kanawha County leads West Virginia with 1 facility and a composite risk score of 4/100. Morgan County and Mason County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.
West Virginia is not done growing. 1 facility is in the pipeline — proposed, permitted, or under construction — which is where residents still have a say at zoning hearings and in rate cases. Each pending project is a decision about land, water, electricity prices, and tax revenue that hasn't been finalized.
We also surface the accountability trail: 8 state bills mentioning data centers and 6 recent news items are tracked for West Virginia below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.
County risk leaderboard
| County | Facilities | Pipeline | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanawha County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Morgan County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Mason County | 1 | 1 | — |
Pipeline & proposals
All tracked facilities
| Facility | Operator | Status | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mason County Data Center | — | Under construction | Mason | — |
| Alpha Federal | — | Kanawha | — | |
| Morgan Wireless | — | Mapped (unverified) | Morgan | — |